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During the War of 1812, some students got together to use Hollis' natural fortress for the base of the Washington Corps, a swagger company that paraded in blue coats, white vests, trousers and gaiters, and kept their arsenal in the attic. Town and gown relations were never good, though, and on one occasion irate Cambridge citizens fixed their bayonets and chased the Washingtonians to the gates of the Yard. There, the rout was haltered by white-haired Dr. Popin who, appearing at the gate, shouted; "Now, my lads, stand your ground. Don't let one of them set foot within...
...nation picked the Arawak word Haiti (meaning Mountainous Land) for a name, then proceeded to split itself in two. In the north, the fabulous Henri Christophe made himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
...Rafael L. Trujillo is one of the great men of his time in the Western Hemisphere ... I tell you the so-called dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in this island fortress against Communism is much better than ours in one particular . . . Trujillo is much more sensible, practical and helpful to his people than Roosevelt...
British Scorn. Meanwhile, Spain sent its ambassador to call on Anthony Eden to protest Queen Elizabeth's scheduled visit on May 10 to Britain's fortress on Gibraltar, "Spanish territory unjustly retained by Britain" for 250 years now. Britain, reacting with lofty scorn, saw its feelings aptly expressed in a London Daily Herald headline: THE AMAZING FRANCO DARES TO WARN us. Undeterred by these headlines. 8,000 Madrid students this week stormed the British embassy and were finally driven away after a 2½-hour hassle with the police...
Near the ancient fortress at Hu in Egypt, a British archeological expedition in 1898 turned up a tiny, beautifully chiseled stone head of a king. But the diggers could not find the rest of the statuette. The head, eventually acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Art, was thought to represent one of the Ptolemys, dating from about 200 B.C. But when Boston Egyptologist Bernard Bothmer came across the piece two years ago, he decided that it was a lot older than that...